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In this Dec. 6, 2016, photo, President-elect Donald Trump introduces retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis as his nominee for Secretary of Defense while speaking to supporters during a rally in Fayetteville, N.C. Trump’s choice for defense secretary was among U.S. military officials who the FBI concluded received anonymous emails from the woman whose affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus led to his downfall, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump's choice for defense secretary was among U.S. military officials who the FBI concluded received anonymous emails from the woman whose affair with then-CIA director...

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2014, file photo, a specialist works at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) in Arlington, Va. The U.S. Homeland Security Department is closer to solving the mystery about why the state of Georgia believed the federal government was trying to hack its election systems. An official involved in the investigation said Dec. 9, 2016, that a DHS employee in part of the department far removed from cybersecurity operations visited the Georgia secretary of state's website for his work. But the employee's system was configured in a way that caused Georgia's security vendor to misinterpret the visit as a scan of its systems. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Homeland Security Department moved closer Friday to solving the mystery about why the state of Georgia believed the federal government was trying to hack its election systems.

YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Two women suicide bombers blew themselves up at a bustling market in northeast Nigeria's Madagali town on Friday morning, killing at least 30 people and wounding 67, an army spokesman told The...

The Stonington Town Wharf sits along the harbor, Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, in Stonington, Conn. The wharf, built from massive stones in 1827, is seen as key to protecting the harbor during storms. A push to restore the disintegrating wharf is gaining steam with legislation in Congress that would return it to town control. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh)

STONINGTON, Conn. (AP) — A historic wharf in Connecticut once used as a gangway for wagons to unload 19th century schooners may one day morph into a new, more modern purpose: helping to protect a quaint, shoreline...

FILE - In this June 5, 2009, file photo, James Tomsheck poses in his office in Washington. Tomsheck, the former head of internal affairs for Customs and Border Protection said in a Supreme Court case filing on Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, that the Border Patrol has large systemic issues with use of force and should be held accountable in the death of a Mexican teen who was killed by an agent in a cross-border shooting. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

PHOENIX (AP) — The former head of internal affairs at U.S. Customs and Border Protection says in a Supreme Court filing that an agent who killed a Mexican teen in a cross-border shooting should be held...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Islamic State leader linked to the 2015 attacks at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and assassinations in Tunisia was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Syria, U.S. military officials...

FILE- This Nov. 7, 2014, artist rendering shows, Irek Hamidullin, front center, his attorney Robert Wagner, front left, and interpreter Ihab Samra, front right, as Judge Henry Hudson, left, listens in Federal Court in Richmond, Va. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, in the case of Hamidullin. Hamidullin was accused of leading insurgents in a 2009 attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan. He was sentenced last year to life in prison. (AP Photo/Dana Verkouteren, File)

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The prosecution of a former Russian military officer accused of leading a Taliban attack on American forces is a radical departure from the U.S.'s long practice of treating fighters as enemy...

PHOENIX (AP) — The board that oversees Arizona's three state universities voted Friday to urge president-elect Donald Trump to protect students who were illegally brought into the county when they were children,...

A 2008 photo shows Claire Randall. Police in Maine said Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, that a former university and Air Force chaplain bought a shotgun after completing treatment for substance abuse and drove to the home of his estranged family, where he killed his adult daughter and then himself. A neighbor discovered the bodies of Daniel Randall, 56, and Claire Randall, 27, on Thursday, in Hebron, Maine. Police said Daniel Randall shot and killed Claire Randall in the bathroom. They believe he then killed himself. (Gretchen Ertl/Providence Journal via AP)

HEBRON, Maine (AP) — A former university and Air Force chaplain bought a shotgun after completing treatment for substance abuse and drove to the home of his estranged family, where he killed his adult daughter and...

CORRECTS IDENTIFICATION TO JOHN BAKER, NOT KEVIN - FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2015 file photo President Barack Obama meets with John Baker, left, the 2011 Iditarod winner on Kotzebue Shore Avenue, which has dealt with erosion problems, in Kotzebue, Alaska. On Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, Obama used his executive powers to add protections to waters off Alaska's west coast. The White House announced creation of a Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area that will focus "locally tailored" protections on marine resources. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)